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*ThePeepingTom: Penance accuses Whip of this after learning she spied on him while he was bathing. She counters that she didn't do it for any prurient reasons, but rather to confirm that his body had no bruises after he fell down the side of a building and thus prove his supernatural nature.
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*ActionFigureJustification: Penance is [[InsistentTerminology very insistent]] that’s his stuffed fox head, Galabeg, is not a doll.
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* ICannotSelfTerminate: Penance admits to Whip that he's wanted to die at times, but his Catholic faith prevents that from becoming a viable option. This is notable in that, while Penance still considers himself bound by the tenets of his faith, he's [[NayTheist openly hostile to God Himself and refuses to pray to him]].
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Penance clearly isn't happy with his immortality, having to quit whatever life he's chosen when he 'ages out' of it within a few years, and would prefer to live a normal life.
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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Penance's mentor Uallas was prone to giving these to Penance when he did things right. He's become [[spoiler: [[DesperatelyCravesAffection extremely fond of them]]]] in general.
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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Penance's mentor Uallas was prone to giving these to Penance when he did things right. He's become [[spoiler: [[DesperatelyCravesAffection extremely fond of them]]]] them]] in general.
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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Penance's mentor Uallas was prone to giving these to Penance when he did things right. He's become [[spoiler: DesperatelyCravesAffection [[DesperatelyCravesAffection extremely fond of them]] them]]]] in general.
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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Penance's mentor Uallas was prone to giving these to Penance when he did things right. He's become [[spoiler: DesperatelyCravesAffection extremely fond of them]] in general.
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* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Immortals being [[HealingFactor immortals, of the TV series variety]], this is obviously a standard tactic in their combat. Penance attempts this during the fight that led to his first kill [[spoiler: and Nicnevin successfully used it in her first fight with Penance, shielding her throat by using her forearm to absorb the blow of Penance’s knife]].
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* BadassInANiceSuit: The [[spoiler: modern day]] dress code for [[spoiler: Nicnevin’s cultists]] appears to be a sharp black suit. They stand out enough in them to draw Whip’s curiosity when first introduced.
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* CheerfulChild: Struana, Uallas’s adopted daughter, very much fits the bill [[spoiler: and her death at Nicnevin’s hands [[MyGreatestFailure haunts Penance]] to no end]].
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Black Hat offers to give a bullied Jewish forensic analyst a recommendation for an FBI job after he picks up on some subtle clues in the aftermath of Penance’s fight with [[spoiler: Father Kenaz]].
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* StraightEdgeEvil: Black Hat has given up drinking by the time of the present events of the story, also claiming to be celibate. The only addiction he seems to be sticking to is his torturing of Penance. He goes [[OffTheWagon off the wagon]] pretty early on in the story, however.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: When Penance is accosted by the first immortal that seeks to take his head and he's [[CurbstompBattle easily overpowered]] he resorts to genuinely, tearfully pleading for his life, which gives his attacker pause [[spoiler: [[CombatPragmatist and gives Penance the opening he needs to kill him.]]]]
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* AdaptationDeviation: Immortals in this continuity have boosted strength proportional to their size, and adult immortals cannot sense the presence of prepubescent immortals through the ‘buzz’. Child immortals can sense adults, but only through deliberate meditation, during which they can [[SeeingThroughAnothersEyes see through sails immortal’s eyes]].
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* AdaptationDeviation: Immortals in this continuity have boosted strength proportional to their size, and adult immortals cannot sense the presence of prepubescent immortals through the ‘buzz’. Child immortals can sense adults, but only through deliberate meditation, during which they can [[SeeingThroughAnothersEyes see through sails said immortal’s eyes]].
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* NeverGrewUp: Penance’s body will remain 12 years old until he dies.
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* Nay-theist: Nay-Theist: Penance absolutely believes in God, but he also blames Him for [[WhoWantsToLiveForever his immortality]], so he’s not on speaking terms.
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* TheNaytheist: Nay-theist: Penance absolutely believes in God, but he also blames Him for [[WhoWantsToLiveForever his immortality]], so he’s not on speaking terms.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Both Penance and Whip have tragedies from their past that they lay on their shoulders, respectively [[spoiler: Penance blaming himself for the fates of Cadha, Struana and Uallas, and Whip blaming herself for her disabled brother’s accidental death]].
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* ChildSoldier: Technically, in Penance’s case. He is seen in supporting roles in both 17th century Scotland (working in the soldiers’ camp) and the 1800s United States (serving as a powder monkey) on a US ship. Penance doesn’t see anything wrong with this, but when asked how he’d like to see a modern-aged boy he’d befriended undergo the same experience he’s notably disturbed.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Grievously wounded, Nicnevin's final moments are spent [[DyingWalk ignoring Penance and pathetically crawling to Uallas' greasy old mirror]] to look at her distorted reflection- a symbol of [[TragicDream her youth that she wants to have back]]. When she manages to touch the mirror she streaks the grease off it and sees herself as she is, letting out a tortured wail and, finally, her damaged neck gives out and she dies.]]
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**A more positive example would be Suzie, a Watcher from Penance's past who [[InLoveWithTheMark got too close to him for her organization's liking]] while observing the boy.
**Black Hat towards Penance.
**A more positive example would be Suzie, a Watcher from Penance's past who [[InLoveWithTheMark got too close to him for her organization's liking]] while observing the boy.
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* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: Penance refuses to tackle other boys his age when playing a pick-up football game. One of the boys assumes Penance is afraid of getting hurt, and Penance doesn't correct him.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Grievously wounded, Nicnevin's final moments are spent [[DyingWalk ignoring Penance and pathetically crawling to Uallas' greasy old mirror]] to look at her distorted reflection- a symbol of [[TragicDream her youth that she wants to have back]]. When she manages to touch the mirror she streaks the grease off it and sees herself as she is, letting out a tortured wail and, finally, her damaged neck gives out and she dies.]]
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* CollapsingLair: [[spoiler: The Aurelia Arms comes crashing down after Nicnevin's defeat, the victim of a gas line explosion and fire.]]
